时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是琼燕要问的:电灯泡。

QY: Happy Friday, Donny! 你今天晚上有什么计划吗?

Donny: Hmm, not yet. What do you have in mind?

QY: Let's go salsa!! 我今晚要跟两个朋友去跳salsa, 可他们俩是一对,我可真不想夹在中间,当大电灯泡--very bright light bulb!

Donny: I see. You don't want to be the third wheel.

QY: The third wheel?

Donny: Yep! Wheel is spelled w-h-e-e-l. The third wheel, 第三个轮子, it's a very colloquial 1 way of saying a third person joining a couple in a social context 2.

QY: 没错!我就是不想当 the third wheel!

Donny: Exactly, you wouldn't want to bother any love birds, right?

QY: Wait! Love birds? 爱的鸟儿?

Donny:Yep! In English, we often use the word love birds to refer to a couple who are openly affectionate, especially in public. 就是大庭广众之下卿卿我我。你不想打扰这对love birds吧?

QY: 可不是吗!不过这两个人很配!They are a great match!

Donny: Oh that's nice! You can also say, they are a match made in heaven.

QY: A match made in heaven? 那不就是中文里说的天生一对嘛!

Donny: There you go! Since you don't want to be the third wheel, I will go with you! But first, let's see what you learned 3 today!

QY: 第一:电灯泡叫做:the third wheel;

第二,如胶似漆的情侣 ,可以说 love birds;

第三,"天生一对"是,a match made in heaven.



1 colloquial
adj.口语的,会话的
  • It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
  • They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。
2 context
n.背景,环境,上下文,语境
  • You can always tell the meaning of a word from its context.你常可以从上下文中猜出词义来。
  • This sentence does not seem to connect with the context.这个句子似乎与上下文脱节。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
Achilles' tendons
allsort
apocrisiary
araucana
asquish
ballet royal de wallonie
Bissau, Ilha de.
blackhead
Brisbanite
CCD spectrograph
collateral taker
contiguous skin flap
direct-acting recording instrum-ent
disconsonant
divorced cemen
Dolby TrueHD
double slide rheostat
DVS,D.V.S.
electron-coupled oscillator
filament wound material
fireengine
fissurae collateralis
flake
Forelles
friction foundation
gamma-loop
gasoline cock
glycosynapses
gropings
grug
hastati
hatwell
heckle
holotricha
implementation study
jadder
Joe Six-pack
Koshta
Kreuzeck
libraries u.s. copyright act
libriform fibre
load and fouling hull operating mode management
local-scale
low pressure gage
low-dosest
masonry vault
microlevel interrupt capability
Nervacton
network terminal option device
nondecreasing sequence of function
nutsch
Oberonia insularis
ocean thermal energy
one thread dyeing
overpitch
phi -coefficient
photon-neutron interaction
picture signal generator
pin electronic control
PL-B
price has downslided
rated tonnage
ribworts
rice milk
riot-control
rokeach dogmatism scale
roof-spans
root circle
ruvc
sampling investigation
scutellinia scutellata
selective noise detection circuit
sodium stibocaptate
spammers
spirillicidal
steam convertor
steam supply line
stimulator
store through
strategical factor
stroma plexus
SU(3) symmetry
swampiness
synesthetic metaphor
telial stage
The air was blue.
threat action
tin bisulfide
tinch
to go out with
tooth trauma
transverse conveyor
trusseth
turmaline
Ulva dactylifera
unadventured
undulance
We are old friends
Wilmersdorf
withdrawal of claim
woodbenders
zinc compound